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magic realism
noun
- a style of painting and literature in which fantastic or imaginary and often unsettling images or events are depicted in a sharply detailed, realistic manner.
magic realism
noun
- a style of painting or writing that depicts images or scenes of surreal fantasy in a representational or realistic way
Derived Forms
- magic realist, noun
Other yĐÄvlog Forms
- magîic reîalist noun
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of magic realism1
Example Sentences
âTigers Are Not Afraidâ was a horror film shot through with magic realism, and both those elements find a home in âNight Country.â
Nancy Savocaâs 1993 film âHousehold Saints,â a warmhearted fable spiced with magic realism and zesty performances, may be the most endearing of multigenerational Italian American family sagas and is likely the most mystical.
That grounding also allows for some well-integrated magic realism, and of the introduction of a spirit world that lives close by and looks and sounds and acts a lot like ours.
His 1979 work The Book of Laughter and Forgetting spanned seven narratives and containing elements of the magic realism genre, while in 1988 he wrote one of his best novels, Immortality.
In Allenâs fashioning, Black experience is never subject to conventional parameters of time and space, and his magic realism, instead of being performatively exuberant or purposefully provocative, is plainly unsettling and disturbing.
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